Wilhelm Berges
Wilhelm Berges (born April 8, 1909 in Werl , † December 25, 1978 in Berlin ) was a German historian .
The son of a customs officer studied philosophy, German and history in Prague, Munich and Berlin. Karl Brandi and Percy Ernst Schramm became his most important academic teachers . Berges received his doctorate from Schramm in 1937 on the prince mirrors of the high and late Middle Ages. The dissertation was published in the writings of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in 1938 . Berges became a research assistant at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and served as a soldier for five years. In 1947, in Göttingen, he completed his habilitation on the subject of the older Hildesheim epigraphy .
From 1949 until his retirement he taught as professor for medieval history at the Free University of Berlin . He turned down calls to Münster, Freiburg and Göttingen (as successors to Tellenbach and Schramm). His dissertation remained the only book completed by Berg. The collection of the Hildesheim inscriptions (mostly destroyed during the war) and the habilitation thesis based on them were not printed. His academic students included Werner Affeldt , Marianne Awerbuch , Gisela Bock , Peter Classen , Amos Funkenstein , Dietrich kurz , Hans-Dietrich Loock , Jürgen Miethke , Bernhard Schimmelpfennig and Ludwig Schmugge . Berges died in Berlin in 1978 at the age of 69. His grave is in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf .
Fonts
- The prince mirrors of the high and late Middle Ages (= writings of the Reichsinstitut für Older Deutsche Geschichtskunde (Monumenta Germaniae Historica). 2, ISSN 0080-6951 ). Hiersemann, Leipzig 1938, (at the same time: Göttingen, University, dissertation, 1938, reprints).
literature
- Peter Classen: Nekrolog. Wilhelm Berges. April 8, 1909-25. December 1978. In: Historical magazine . Vol. 229, No. 3, 1979, pp. 779-782, JSTOR 27621483 .
- Dietrich Kurz : Wilhelm Berges April 8, 1909 - December 26, 1978. In: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany, Vol. 28 (1979), pp. 530–553. ( online )
- Ludwig Schmugge : Wilhelm Berges (1909–1978). In: Historical yearbook . Vol. 99, 1979, pp. 517-518.
Web links
- Publications by Wilhelm Berges in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
Remarks
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places. Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 631.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berges, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Werl |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1978 |
| Place of death | Berlin |